Greece has been in the news lately, trying to secure funds to repay 1.5 billion euros to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by the end of the month. And as luck would have it, there is some data available and some graphs to be created … I love this job! […]
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Nope – we’re not digging up mummies in pyramids and analyzing the gender – this blog is about population pyramid charts and “digging into data”! But since the title might have lured in some pyramid fans, here’s a picture of my friend Angela posing beside a pyramid – pretty cool, eh?!? […]
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Discovery Channel’s Shark Week starts July 5, 2015 – and I’ve created a special SAS map & graph of shark attacks in North Carolina to get you in the mood for their week of shark education! But first, to get you in the mood for my blog, here’s a picture […]
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One of my earlier blogs on handling percent (%) values in SAS was very popular (it’s been viewed over 34,000 times!), so I thought I’d write a similar blog on handling time (mm:ss.ss) values in SAS … This past weekend I was in a dragonboat race (that’s me in the […]
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What cities have the most and least profitable public transportation services in the US? Perhaps you can find out in this graphical visualization of the data! The US data I’m analyzing here covers things like buses, vans, and rail … but it might be even more interesting to analyze data from […]
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One of the keynote sessions at this year’s SAS Global Forum (SGF) was by Jake Porway on the subject of using data for social good. Jake is CEO of DataKind – a charitable organisation established in 2011 to harness the power of data science for the bene…
A recent study by Bai & Anderson has found that some hospitals charge 10x (ie, 1000%) higher than the standard rates set by Medicare. Many news agencies have posted the list of the 50 US hospitals that have the highest markup. But I am more visually oriented, so of course I used SAS […]
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Have you ever been bitten by a mosquito? What are the odds it carried the West Nile virus? … Perhaps a lot higher than you thought! Here’s a picture of a mosquito that kept ‘bugging’ me around my computer desk at home – good riddance, I say! The West Nile […]
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